In selecting Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., as its new chair, the Congressional Black Caucus chose one of its most progressive members who, days after Sept. 11, 2001, was the only person in Congress to vote against authorizing the use of force in Iraq.
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Carolyn Kilpatrick,
Charles Rangel,
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Eddie Bernice Johnson,
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James Wright,
Jesse Jackson Jr.,
John Conyers,
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While Adham and the more than 3,500 professional fishermen who scour Gaza’s waters for needed sustenance and sources of income are accustomed to Israeli navy harassment, Tuesday’s encounter was different, heightened.
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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights,
siege of Gaza,
Vittorio "Vik" Arrigoni
Three years and 69 days was a lifetime ago in political terms. There are still many Americans living today who grew up in an apartheid America where the concept of even allowing Blacks to vote in many states and counties was considered impossible.
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Ajamu Baraka,
Black America,
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Central City,
Children's Health Fund,
Darwin BondGraham,
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Hurricane Gustav,
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita,
John Trudell,
New Orleans,
privatized public schools,
public housing demolition,
Sidney Poitier,
US Human Rights Network
Some of us remember the first elected prime minister of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, as he brought to the world the vision of a prosperous Congo where this beautiful land will benefit the Congolese people and not world corporations. A modern day holocaust is occurring in this picturesque land of abundance.
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International Crisis Group study "Consolidating the Peace",
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Kambale Musavuli,
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President Paul Kagame,
President-elect Barack Obama,
Rumble in the Jungle,
Rwanda,
Zaire
Robert H. King, Angola 3 activist, former political prisoner, called to tell me that Herman Wallace, while visiting with Jackie Sumell and her friend, had what appeared to be a heart attack or stroke. Alarmed, Jackie banged on the door of the locked visiting room to get guards’ attention.
All of us in the Free Gaza Movement, whether passengers on the boats or part of the support teams, are outraged that 1.5 million Palestinians are being collectively punished by the apartheid policies of the Israeli state.
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Donna Wallach,
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Israeli siege on Gaza,
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SS Liberty
We elected a Black president. Now tell me what we can’t do. I want to see us use that muscle to prove to ourselves and the world once again that Black people are master builders. We built the White House. We built the South and much of the North. And nobody’s going to lock us out of construction any longer. We’re demanding our piece of the pie. Will you back me up on that?
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Alaska State Commission for Human Rights,
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Black president,
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construction lockout,
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founder of the Congressional Black Caucus,
green jobs,
Liberty Builders,
New Deal,
noose,
President-elect Barack Obama,
segregated jobsites,
Trans-Alaska Pipeline,
underground economy,
Willie Ratcliff
The Luggage Store Gallery presents the Bobby Hutton Memorial Benefit, Nov. 29-Dec. 6. The opening reception is Saturday, Nov. 29, from 8 to 10 p.m. at the gallery, 1007 Market St. in San Francisco. The show features work by 27 artists – among them, Emory Douglas, Rigo 23 and a photo essay by Billy X.
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"Sincerella",
African American Shakespeare Company,
Anna's Jazz Island,
Arvis Strickling-Jones,
ASA Academy and Community Science Center,
Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations Western Region Conference,
August Wilson,
Black Nativity,
Black Panther Boulevard,
Delroy Lindo,
Goapele,
Jennifer Holliday,
Joe Turner's Come and Gone,
Kwanzaa,
Lil Bobby Hutton,
Lorraine Hansberry,
Mahealani Uchiyama,
MK Asante Jr.,
Nas,
National Day of Listening,
Nicholas Bearde,
San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus,
Stanley E. Williams,
The Black Candle,
Wanda Sabir,
World AIDS Day,
Wose' Community House of Amen RA,
Wu Tang Clan
The war in Congo is a U.S. proxy war; the U.S. uses Kagame, the Rwandan army and terrorist Gen. Laurent Nkunda as their African proxy force in Congo, but this is war. It has been the deadliest, though barely reported, war on the planet for years.
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cobalt,
deadliest war on the planet,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
Gen. Laurent Nkunda,
Kambale Musavuli,
Katanga Province,
North Kivu Province,
Paul Kagame,
Rwanda,
U.S. State Department's Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer,
Zaire
I recall listening to a recording of Albert Woodfox describing how it felt after 15 years or something crazy long like that to finally get a contact visit from his mom and feel her hug. Now, after nearly 36 years in solitary confinement, Woodfox could soon be released on bail.
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Angola 3,
Angola State Prison,
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Congressman John Conyers,
Herman Wallace,
Jim Crow,
Robert H. King,
U.S. District Court Judge James Brady,
Wanda Sabir,
Warden Burl Cain
Being homosexual compromises or revokes the entitlement that most white gays and lesbians are born and raised into. Many feel they must make a choice between their full entitlement – by abstaining or by remaining in the closet – and expressing their sexuality.
Lennar’s LEN stocks had sunk to $3.60 per share by mid-November despite restructuring and partnership with the financial firm CB Richard Ellis, headed by Richard Blum, a UC regent and husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a principle sponsor of the Lennar-funded Proposition G.
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Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
asbestos,
BAAQMD Asbestos Dust Mitigation Plan,
Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
Bayview Hunters Point,
biomonitoring,
California Body Burden Campaign,
CH2M Hill,
Community Choice Aggregation,
dirty transfer,
Dr. Kevin Grumbach,
Dr. Tomas Aragon,
environmental justice,
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard,
John Rizzo,
Kofi Bonner,
Lennar,
Lennar-BVHP,
Mirant power plant,
Proposition F,
Proposition G,
Richard Blum,
San Francisco 49ers stadium,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
San Francisco Department of Public Health,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
Sierra Club,
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi,
The Healthy California Biomonitoring Program
“I am writing to tell you that my daughter’s father, who is on the tier with Marritte, says that Marritte is in a lot of pain from probable kidney failure and all they are giving him for pain is aspirin!” This chilling message came by email from an activist in Nevada.
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ACLU Prison Project,
American Friends Service Committee's Stopmax Project,
Corrections Director Howard Skolnik,
CR10,
Marritte Funches,
medical abuse and neglect,
Medical Director Dr. Bruce Bannister,
Naima Black,
Nevada Department of Corrections,
Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons,
Nevada State Prison in Carson City,
San Francisco
A Yes We Can Coalition of Asian and Black King-Garvey shareholders chanting, “Stop the land grab; yes, we can!” marched outside Citibank subsidiary Citi Community Capital in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District on Thursday, Nov. 13.
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Africana Studies,
attorney Carl Williams,
Black Studies Department,
Black-Asian unity,
Citi Community Capital,
Citibank,
Dr. Oba T'Shaka,
Harlem of the West,
HUD,
King-Garvey Board President Carlos Levexier,
King-Garvey Co-op,
King-Garvey shareholders,
land grab,
Martin Luther King-Marcus Garvey Square Cooperative Apartments,
Mary Ratcliff,
National Black United Front,
National Cooperative Bank,
Operation We Are Family,
public housing in New Orleans,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
Section 8 subsidies,
Sharon Jones,
Wendell Harper
Today I was slated to speak in Damascus, Syria, at a conference to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 60th year that the Palestinian people have been denied their Right of Return enshrined in that declaration. But I was not allowed to exit the country.
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Cynthia McKinney,
Damascus,
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International Atomic Energy Agency,
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Israel,
Middle East,
Palestine,
President Jimmy Carter,
President-elect Obama,
Prime Minister Tun Mahathir,
Right of Return,
Rwanda Genocide,
Sojourner Truth,
Syria,
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour,
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon,
Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
white phosphorus,
World Conference Against Racism
This story, dictated by Malik Rahim to the Bay View two days after Katrina, was the call heard round the world that Black and poor New Orleanians were being abandoned in nothing less than attempted genocide and volunteers were needed. Now Malik is in a winnable race for Congress Dec. 6. Go Malik!
Malik Rahim has spoken out with courage, asked the difficult questions and built viable community alternatives. He is a strong organizer who acted while the politicians waited. Now he wants to take his courage to Congress.
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Bill Jefferson,
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Charity Hospital,
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Cynthia McKinney,
education not incarceration,
flood protection,
green job training,
Gulf Coast Civic Works Project,
high-stakes testing,
Hurricane Katrina,
hurricane recovery,
Jefferson Davis,
Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District,
Malik Rahim,
Malik Rahim for Congress,
New Orleans,
Pat LaMarche,
public education,
quality affordable healthcare,
renewable energy,
sustainable energy policy,
Thomas Merton Award,
United States Congress
Vanguard journalist and Current TV producer Christof Putzel traces gold to its origins in one of Africa’s biggest gold mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Originally posted Aug. 6, 2006, this report remains current and so chilling we hope it’ll make you swear off bling this holiday season and forevermore.
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blood diamonds,
child miners,
child soldiers,
Congo,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
gold,
mercury,
mining,
mining for bling
Dropped in to see the McCoy Tyner Trio with Marc Ribot on guitar. Tyner is always a treat and this ensemble featuring Gerald Cannon on bass and Eric Kamau Gravett on drums is phenomenal!
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"Sincerella",
"Victim of Duty",
Albert Woodfox,
Avotcja,
Donald Lacy,
Eugene Ionesco,
Felicia Benefield,
Gail Shaw,
Geronimo ji jaga,
Goapele,
Herman Wallace,
Malik Rahim,
Marcus Shelby,
McCoy Tyner Trio,
Nas,
Nicolas Bearde,
Robert King,
Sila and AfroFunk,
Toni Morrison,
Wanda Sabir,
Wanda's Picks,
Zion I
After Proposition 8 passed, Black gay men holding “No on Proposition 8″ signs were verbally assaulted by white gay anti-Prop 8 protesters. They were called “niggers,” and “their people” were blamed for its passage.
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